ACS Assessor Guide - Security Industry Authority

ACS Assessor GuideSection 4 – Criterion Specific Guidelines: Criteria 66.3 An SIA Approved Contractor can demonstrate that its people are provided with appropriate benefits and welfare arrangements.6.3.3 A health and safety policy and supporting procedures exist and are implemented.Clarification:There is a statutory requirement for all organisations with five or more employees to have ahealth and safety policy and supporting procedures to ensure the safety of employees atwork. The ACS Standard requires organisations to consider the risks to employees atcustomer sites and venues.At customer sites, staff must be trained in line with the customer’s Health & Safety policy andprocedures.Risk assessments should be regularly reviewed.Staff carrying out risk assessments should be appropriately trained.Organisations should particularly consider lone worker policy and practice.The ACS standard requires organisations to have specific policies that deal with workplaceviolence/violent incidents.Ref: BS7958; BS7499; BS7984Good practice: Accreditation to the Safe Contractor Scheme which ensures correct advice andtraining is given to all employees along with other requirements such as conductingrelevant risk assessments. Risk assessments are ideally ‘point of use’ documents and should be readily available forstaff to refer to at their place of work. Organisations might use scoring mechanisms to prioritise risks. For further information refer to organisations like: HSE, ROSPA, and British SafetyCouncil. Days lost due to incidents are monitored. Each employee completes an annual Health & Safety questionnaire.Linkages with other Indicators:2.4.4 All procedures are regularly reviewed.5.2.3 Control rooms/response rooms are designed, fitted and equipped in a mannerappropriate to purpose.7.1.1 Leaders can demonstrate, relevant to sector, knowledge of the legislative framework,common law, working practice, and industry standards/codes of practice.7.3.1 Leaders have developed a set of high values or codes of ethics that are implementedthroughout the organisation.9.3.1 The regular review of performance against key employee performance indicators.9.4.1 The regular review of performance against responses from employee opiniongathering.9.5.1 The regular review of performance against internal and external environmental/societal/ health and safety performance indicators.155The contents of this publication are copyright ©2013 Security Industry Authority, all rights reserved. No part of the contents may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means without prior written permission of the copyright owner.